echini
- plural of echinus.
Example Sentences
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Superb specimens were secured,—large boulders crowded with colossal shells and perfectly preserved echini.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Agassiz, Louis
Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
Some have only the Latin plural, which usually changes us to i; as, alumnus, alumni; androgynus, androgyni; calculus, calculi; dracunculus, dracunculi; echinus, echini; magus, magi.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
I found shells embedded in limestone varying considerably in its hardness being sometimes very friable and the surface in some places presenting innumerable fragments of corallines, with pectens, spatangi, echini, ostrea and foraminifera.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas
His chief work was the description of the invertebrate fossils of New York—in which he dealt with the graptolites, brachiopods, mollusca, trilobites, echini and crinoids of the Palaeozoic formations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
